csubj: clausal subject
A clausal subject is a clausal syntactic subject of a clause, i.e., the subject is itself a clause. The governor of this relation might not always be a verb: when the verb is a copular verb, the root of the clause is the complement of the copular verb. The dependent is the main lexical verb or other predicate of the subject clause.
That he lied surprised me .
csubj(surprised, lied)
mark(lied, That)
nsubj(lied, he)
obj(surprised, me)
Whether he lied is unknown .
csubj(unknown, lied)
mark(lied, Whether)
nsubj(lied, he)
cop(unknown, is)
New from v2: The csubj relation is also used for the clausal subject of a passive verb or verb group. For languages
that have a grammaticalized passive transformation, it is strongly recommended to use the subtype csubj:pass in
such cases. If the subject is of a copular clause whose predicate is itself a clause, csubj:outer may be used.
See also expletive subject examples under expl that use csubj.
csubj in other languages: [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gsw] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [uz] [vi] [yue] [zh]